A drunken man racially abused staff while out drinking in one of Cambridge’s most historic pubs.

David Gladwin, 55, from Fison Road in Cambridge, appeared at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on December 13. He was found guilty of racially aggravated intentional harassment, and using alarming or distressing words.

It is just one of a number of cases to come before magistrates in court room 3, which the Cambridge News liveblogged, on Wednesday, December 13.

Prosecutor Christopher Foster said Gladwin was in the Eagle pub in Cambridge on February 19, 2017. The court was told he was with other patrons when he started getting belligerent and was asked to leave.

Mr Foster said: “There were some racial slurs, in which it was alleged that Mr Gladwin said that, I paraphrase, ‘you are not from here, you shouldn’t be here’. It was then said ‘you are not from England, you are Chinese and you shouldn’t be here’.

“There were references to another member of staff being of Mexican descent. They felt intimidated and called the police.”

The court heard from Joseane Silva, a manager at the Eagle, who said Gladwin and a group with him had been being noisy. When she asked him to be quiet, the court heard he began asking where she was from in an aggressive manner.

She said: “He asked where I was from and told me I should not be here. He didn’t listen and kept shouting. When he realised I had called the police, he tried to leave, but I said: ‘No, now you wait.’”